Police chief warns dissidents will target any hard Irish border

Republican terror groups would try to attack any infrastructure around a hard border in Ireland following Brexit, a senior police officer has warned.

The PSNI has warned the threat of violence could rise from a hard border

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Drew Harris, the deputy chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said ministers must stay true to their word of keeping the frontier open or risk dissidents targeting buildings.

His intervention came as members of the Brexit committee visited County Armagh and just days before the Government’s deadline for proposing a border solution to the EU, before they consider moving on to trade talks.